Dr Karina Patrício Ferreira Lima is a Senior Lecturer in International Financial Law at the University of Leeds and an affiliated scholar at Georgetown University’s Institute of International Economic Law. She also serves as External Examiner at King’s College London.
Her research examines the constitutive role of law in the global economic order, with a particular focus on international monetary and financial law. Her work analyses how legal frameworks shape financial markets and mediate the distribution of risk and adjustment within the international financial system, and how these dynamics influence development and sustainability outcomes.
Dr Patrício Ferreira Lima works at the intersection of law, policy, and practice, collaborating with international organisations, governments, and civil society. Her recent projects include work on sovereign debt transparency, legal frameworks for public debt management, the legal governance of sovereign debt crises, and mechanisms to enable local currency financing. Her research has informed policy debates across Europe, Latin America, and Africa, as well as within institutions such as the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund.